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Erythrogenys

  • Erythrogenys

    Erythrogenys is a genus of scimitar babblers, jungle birds with long downcurved bills.

    1/  Rusty-cheeked scimitar babbler (Họa mi đất má trắng, Erythrogenys erythrogenys) 

    2/ Large scimitar babbler (Họa mi đất mỏ dài, Erythrogenys hypoleucos)

  • Large Scimitar Babbler

    Large Scimitar Babbler 
    (Họa mi đất mỏ dài, Erythrogenys hypoleucos)

    The large scimitar babbler (Erythrogenys hypoleucos) is a species of bird in the family Timaliidae.

    Erythrogenys
    Erythro: eruthros meaning "red"
    genys: Latin genus (“birth, origin, a race, sort, kind”) from the root gen- in Latin gignō (“to beget, produce”). 
    The Latinized Greek hypoleucos, with the correct “-os” ending as first published by Gould, means white below New Latin, from Ancient Greek ὑπόλευκος (hupóleukos, “whitish underneath”).
    hypo: From Ancient Greek ὑπο- (hupo-), combining form of ὑπό (hupó, “under”).

     

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